After a hurricane, comes a rainbow.

The media, is media. You always have to take the media with a grain of salt. You can't believe everything you read.

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.